ПИСМО ДЕСПОТА ЂУРЂА БРАНКОВИЋА КРАЉИЦИ БАРБАРИ И УГАРСКИМ СТАЛЕЖИМА И ДРУГИ АКТИ ПОВОДОМ СПОРА ОКО ЗАКУПА КОМОРE У НАЂБАЊИ (1431–1433)
THE LETTER OF DESPOT ĐURAĐ BRANKOVIĆ TO QUEEN BARBARA AND THE HUNGARIAN ESTATES AND OTHER DOCUMENTS REGARDING THE DISPUTE OVER THE LEASE OF THE CHAMBER IN NAGYBÁNYA (1431–1433)

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a critical edition of the judgment of the city court of Buda of 2 April 1433 regarding the dispute over the lease of the chamber in Nagybánya (Rivulus Dominarum) in Hungary (present-day Baia Mare in Romania). The judgment contains the transcripts of a letter of Despot Đurađ Branković to Queen Barbara and the Hungarian Estates of 20 August 1432, issued in Smederevo, and a letter of the city council of Nagybánya, issued on 20 February of 1433. These documents provide an insight into the way the Serbian ruler leased regal revenues on his Hungarian estates received from King Sigismund of Luxembourg. The lessees of the Nagybánya chamber were citizens of German origin – Nicolaus Wasserpauch from Nagybánya and Johannes Cammermeister, whom his partner Wasserpauch and the despot accused of embezzling 10,000 gold forints in September 1431. As his predecessor Despot Stefan Lazarević, who gave his regal revenues in Nagybánya in lease to traders from Dubrovnik, in the newly arisen circumstances Despot Đurađ dispatched his confidant, a noble from Dubrovnik Andreas Czansick to assume the administration of the chamber. However, in 1433 Nicolaus Wasserpauch eventually lost the lawsuit before the court of Buda, which he had initiated against his erstwhile companion over the purported embezzlement concerning the lease of the Nagybánya chamber. The dispute shows that the Serbian ruler collected significant revenues from his Hungarian estates, primarily from mining towns such as Nagybánya and others in Szatmár County (Szatmár-Németi/Satu Mare, Felsőbánya/Baia Sprie). The documentis now kept in the City Archive of Košice in Slovakia (Collectio Schwartzenbachiana, nr. 190). The paper also provides a detailed diplomatic analysis of the document with photographs, description and translation into Serbian.

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